Mentorship Application Form

You will also need to identify at least one (maximum of three) goals for your mentorship and agree to the full terms and conditions.

Process

SA Writers Centre will connect you with a mentor with four weeks of application. Mentorship fees must be paid in advance in full to the Centre.

What to expect

Mentorship hours are billed for actual time spent, in 15 minute (minimum) increments. This includes all contact with the mentee including phone/Skype/IM conversations, emails, reading and feedback time and face to face meetings.Note this means that if you send four emails to your mentor, that will equate to one hour of mentorship time.The mentor and mentee will develop a shared timetable and plan, including identified goals, and will keep a weekly record that tracks progress towards goals and time spent by the mentor.Any questions or difficulties will be resolved by the SA Writers Centre.

Rates

Mentorships are offered in five hour blocks.5 hours $55010 hours $88020 hours $1650You can add additional blocks upon completion of initial blocks if you and your mentor agree that this would be beneficial for your work.[gravityform id="15" title="true" description="true"]

Opportunities

Below is a list of available residencies, scholarships, publications seeking submissions and other opportunities. Be sure to check out our program of workshops to get you ready for publication.

Pink Cover Zine #2: open for submissions

Closing date: 20 Feb 2018

Pink Cover Zine issue #2 is open for submissions and invites your stories, poems, creations and musings about sex in all it’s proliferations!

The single celled organism Tetrahymena thermophilia has seven sexes and can reproduce in 21 combinations. Human, animal, plant, prokaryote: sex is fundamental, and we want to know your take on it. When it comes to sex there is no normal, so we are especially interested in reading pieces that explore and reflect on aspects of sex that are under-represented in the mainstream. Keep reading…

Mulga Bill Writing Award

Closing date: 02 Mar 2018

Entries are now open for the 2018 Mulga Bill Writing Award.

The competition is a celebration of story and community and brings together writers from right across Australia. It’s part of the Eaglehawk Dahlia and Arts Festival, which takes place annually in this historic goldfields township in central Victoria. Keep reading…

Best Australian Science Writing 2018: Call for entries

Closing date: 31 Mar 2018

Calling all science journalists, editors, academics and other wordsmiths – it’s that time of year again when you need to think about which stories, essays, chapters, poems and other expertly crafted pieces of writing to submit for The Best Australian Science Writing anthology. Keep reading…

Underdog project

Closing date: 15 Apr 2018

Underdog is an initiative created by readers and writers for readers and writers. Underdog Short Stories, as the name suggests, is the first #LoveOzYA publication specifically designed to foster the growth of aspiring Australian young adult fiction writers. Keep reading…

Open Pitches

Ongoing

Asymptote

Ongoing

Asymptote welcomes submissions of translated poetry, fiction, nonfiction and drama; certain types of original English-language nonfiction, including literary and critical writing; as well as visual art.

In It For The Long Scrawl

Ongoing

wigleaf

Ongoing

Erin Thomas Playwright Fund

Ongoing

It can be tough getting your playwriting career going if you live outside of the capital cities – opportunities to engage with the theatre industry are rare and expensive. The newly established Erin Thomas Playwright Fund has been created to support emerging playwrights from regional or remote areas to attend opportunities or events that would help them develop their careers. To be eligible, playwrights need to: reside in a regional, remote or rural area of Australia; and be at an early stage of their career and have had no more than two professional productions. Funded travel costs can include airfares, accommodation, per diems or other relevant expenses. Playwrights may apply to attend events and opportunities.

Highlight Publishing

Ongoing

We are a new small independent publishing house that selects manuscripts based on the quality of the story telling, the literary value, and the prospect of sufficient sales to make the publication project financially viable.

MadHat (Mad Hatters’ Review)

Ongoing

MadHat (Mad Hatters’ Review), seeks to foster the work of writers and poets: explosive, lyrical, passionate, deeply wrought voices and aesthetic experiments that stretch the boundaries of language, narrative and image, vital and enduring literary voices that sing on the page as well as in the mind.

‘Social Alternatives’ journal

Ongoing

Overland’s Cursive Letters

Ongoing

Every month Overland run a literary advice column called Cursive Letters in which their wonderful fiction editor Jennifer Mills responds in agony-aunt style to questions submitted by writers about their literary dilemmas.

LGBTQIA Book Club for Young Adults

Ongoing

Book Club is a place to discuss YA books with LGBTQIA characters and/or themes. It’s open to everyone aged 14-24, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. We are a homophobia, biphobia and transphobia free zone.

Scribe

Ongoing

Antic Magazine

Ongoing

Antic is a not-for-profit online literary magazine of new writing in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and criticism, featuring the works of new and established Australian writers, as well as a smattering of international ones.

Thank You For Swallowing

Ongoing

Poetry is a form of protest. So let this be another one, in the spirit of Against Rape, in the spirit of Catechism, in the spirt of Binders Full of Women’s Poems: if you’re done sucking it up, submit your poems.

Blogstock_

Ongoing

Blogstock_ is a marketplace for buying and selling pre-written and custom blogs designed to drive traffic to your website and sales for your business. Their bloggers are Australian residents and experts in their fields.

Chicken Soup for the Soul

Ongoing

A Chicken Soup for the Soul story is an inspirational, true story about ordinary people having extraordinary experiences. Chicken Soup for the Soul stories are written in the first person and have a beginning, middle and an end. The stories often close with a punch, creating emotion, rather than simply talking about it.

HOW magazine seeks freelance writers

Ongoing

HOW magazine provides a practical mix of essential business information, up-to-date technology tips, the creative whys and hows behind noteworthy projects, and profiles of professionals who are influencing design. HOW seeks writers who can write articles pertinent to our audience in an enter taining, concise style.

Ensemble Vacations®

Ongoing

Ensemble Vacations® is a national, consumer travel and lifestyle magazine. From close-to-home places like Canada and the U.S. to Europe or exotic destinations in Asia, the South Pacific, the Caribbean and South America; from river cruising and grand voyages to luxury safaris, exclusive hotels and villas, spa retreats and ‘volunteer’ tourism, they cover it all.

With a focus on topics that generally aren’t covered in any significant depth by the mainstream media, your piece might be something dangerous, illicit, taboo or even just a tad eccentric. We want true tales from the rawest edges of humanity. Sex, crime, drugs or even life as a refugee. How about a report from a conflict zone? We aren’t after anything that pushes an ideology or an agenda. We want the facts to speak for themselves.

Island Magazine

Ongoing

PitchLab

Ongoing

PitchLab is an innovative new approach to selling long-form feature articles to magazines, radio programs, websites, and newspapers. It follows the same successful business model that works in the book publishing industry.

Fantasy and Science Fiction

Ongoing

Fireside

Ongoing

Fireside is a short story magazine that has two goals in mind: Publish great stories, and pay writers well. They pay above normal rates for their category of magazine: 12.5 cents per word, up to 5,000 words.

InterGalactic Medicine Show

Ongoing

On human rights issues in Australia

Ongoing

Right Now, a not-for-profit media organisation committed to covering human rights issues in Australia through accessible, creative and engaging online, print and radio media. The journal aims to present a diverse range of perspectives, and encourages the participation of those who identify as GLBTIQ, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, culturally and linguistically diverse, and persons with disability.

Pixapops

Ongoing

Seeking a screen writer

Ongoing

Are you screen writer looking to improve your collaboration skills? Experienced writing screenplays and or documentary scriptsin form rather than content? Well a fun and rewarding opportunity awaits. Damo-tainment Films requires a writer capable of adapting scenarios and gags into screen scripts.

Collaborator wanted for Fringe performance

Ongoing

Emma and Kate (2 singers / performers in Adelaide) are seeking a creative writer to help them piece together all the ideas they have for their 1st time up coming Fringe show STEVIEPINK. Emma and Kate are putting together a cabaret/fringe show about what would happen if Stevie Nicks (Emma) and P!nk (Kate) were to meet for an epic jam session for one night only. How would they interact and what would be the purpose that brings them together? They are excited to have a writer on board to help their vision and ideas come to life on stage.

Summer of Romance research project

Ongoing

A team of researchers from the University of Tasmania are conducting a research project into the significance of paperback Harlequin Mills & Boon novels in contemporary literary culture – and we need the help of booklovers to do it!

Between 1 December 2016 and 28 February 2017, we’re asking people to contribute to our study by participating in a scavenger hunt. We’ve put together a list of fifty Harlequin Mills & Boon novels by Australian authors, published between 1996 and 2016, and now we’re trying to find them in the wild. Keep reading…

Walker Books Australia announces Walker Wednesday

Ongoing

Walker Books Australia is excited to announce a new submission process open to all authors with unpublished manuscripts. Walker Wednesday will allow budding authors to submit their manuscripts to Walker Books’ award-winning editorial team. Walker Books is currently accepting submissions of middle-grade and young adult fiction from Australian and New Zealand authors.

Walker Books Australia are seeking young adult and middle-grade manuscripts with strong writing, engaging characters and well-developed world-building. We are open to young adult and middle-grade of all genres, but are particularly interested in submissions with diverse characters and/or written by diverse authors.

Submissions will be accepted on the first Wednesday of every month and will be open for the day only. Submissions that do not meet the guidelines or are submitted on any other day will not be read. The next submission date will be Wednesday December 7, 2016.

Walker Books Australia has been bringing the best of children’s publishing to Australia and New Zealand for over 20 years. The company is dedicated to publishing books of unwavering quality for children and young adults to read and treasure. Walker Books Australia is also passionate about the Australian Children’s book industry and is a haven for the most highly talented authors and illustrators, both emerging and award-winning. Walker Books Australia is proud to be the home of Black Dog Books, an award-winning imprint with a reputation for publishing some of Australia’s finest writers including Carole Wilkinson, Sue Lawson and Suzy Zail.

NT Writers’ Festival – Alice Springs 2017

Ongoing

The NT Writers’ Festival returns to Alice Springs next year and runs from 18-21 May, on the cusp of the desert winter.

In 2017 storytellers, songwomen and writers from central Australia come together with writers from across the country to consider the theme Crossings | Iwerre-atherre.

Home to the Arrernte people, Alice Springs or Mparntwe is set against the breathtaking backdrop of the McDonnell Ranges, that carry the stories of giant caterpillar ancestors. Alice Springs is also a place of crossings – story, language, culture, knowledge systems. But all writing is written across this storied landscape and comes into conversation in some way with country.

We invite you to make the journey to the desert where we shall consider all kinds of crossings – linguistic, cultural and geographic; borders and boundaries; migrations, movements and diasporas. We’ll also look at cross-platform publishing and writing borne of collaboration.

This is a festival of writing, ideas and culture in the heart of Australia. We hope that writers and readers from across Australia will make the journey to take part in this unique festival.

Mulga Bill Writing Award

Ongoing

Once again we’re searching the country for Eaglehawk’s next big literary mentions!

The 2017 award is now open for entries. You’ve got until Thursday, March 2 to send us your short stories and poems, on any topic of your choosing. But there is a catch!

All entries must contain the word ‘Eaglehawk’ at least once, in a respectful nod to Banjo Paterson’s much-loved poem about Mulga Bill, of Eaglehawk. The great poet put our historic township on the map when he penned the poem in 1896, and we’re keeping the momentum going by asking you to do the same.

Free short course – The Art of Wellness: Visual Arts and Health

Ongoing

Eyre Writers Week 2017

Ongoing

Port Lincoln, South Australia is gearing up for its first ever Eyre Writers Week as part of the region’s inaugural SALT Arts and Innovation Festival. From 22 to 29 April an impressive line-up of award-winning authors will present workshops and talks on a range of writing genres and topics.

Featured among them will be Great Australian Outback author, Bill ‘Swampy’ Marsh in an evening of song, readings and storytelling. Bill will also conduct a full-day workshop sharing secrets on how he writes his award-winning short stories.

Young Australian of the Year Finalist, Manal Younus, will conduct workshops in writing and performing poetry. And Tricia Stringer, RWA Romantic Book of the Year award winner, will appear in panel discussions and launch her latest Australian historical saga.

From creative writing for children, song and poetry, to workshops on self-publishing and character development, Eyre Writers Week offers an exciting opportunity for anyone with a love of the written word.

The Lifted Brow – Open to submissions

Ongoing

The Lifted Brow is now open to submissions of fiction short stories AND manuscripts!

“In The Lifted Brow we tend to publish fiction that is ‘new’ in some way, whether it be different, original, experimental in respect to form, or viewpoint, or style, or voice, or plot, or language – or any combo of all the above. What does ‘new’ mean? We don’t know. We want you to show us.”Keep reading…

Rollick Magazine – Call for Submissions – Most Popular Post Award

Ongoing

Submissions are now open for Rollick Magazine’s “Begin Again” issue.

Rollick’s mandate is to attract cutting-edge, quality content that inspires real engagement. We will consider any pitch that expresses unique and original thought. Ideally, we want you to explore this theme through the prism of popular culture and your experience of society.

Varuna Residencies

Ongoing

Since 1989, Varuna the national writers house has been offering writers time and space to write. In the beautiful world heritage listed Blue Mountains, with expert tuition from Varuna consultants and the support of other like-minded writers, you can feed your imagination and let your stories flourish. Varuna will soon be accepting applications for our 2017 Residential Focus Weeks Keep reading…

MY disABILITIES Project

Ongoing

Join us to participate in an exciting new book project “MY disABILITIES”

Our vision is “To inspire people with a disability, and to increase the knowledge and understanding of disability in the community”.

We are asking for contributions from individuals with a disability.

And whether or not you have a disability, we are looking for writers to be creative, proofreaders to read and provide feedback, an illustrator to produce eye-catching images, and an editor to ensure our book is fantastic.

We encourage people of all experience levels to apply for the creative roles, as the project may be a stepping stone in your career. The project will share the proceeds between the team members.

After reading 25 biographies about the life of individuals with a disability, John and Terri considered the books didn’t adequately share the realities of living with special needs, and the book project commenced.

Please visit our website for information, as well as the application forms. Feel free to contact us, and we will answer your questions.

International OCD Foundation – Tales from the OCD Community

Ongoing

Stories can encourage, inspire, and inform. We offer storytellers the space to tell their personal stories about OCD and related disorders – boldly, honestly, and creatively.

Tell Us Your Story!We welcome submissions from those living with OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) or a related disorder, including BDD (Body Dysmorphic Disorder), their family/friends, researchers, and medical professionals. Keep reading…